THIS WEEK IN CHEMISTRY

                                                 
Seminars for the week of November 2 – 6, 2009

Tuesday, November 3
Analytical Seminar, C033, 4:00 p.m.
Professor Rebecca Jockusch, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, “Spectroscopy of Mass-Selected Biomolecular Ions: Photofragmentation, Fluorescence and Electron Detachment.”

Wednesday, November 4
Biochemistry Seminar, S001, 12:00 p.m.
Sarah Katen, Department of Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. “Progress Toward Characterization of Propenamide Small Molecule Effectors of Hepatitis B Virus Capsid Assembly.”

Thursday, November 5
Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, C001, 12:30 p.m.
Wenjun Liu, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.  “Modular Access to Boron -and Metal-Containing Conjugated Polymers: Mechanism-Based Design of Solid State Sensors for Lewis Bases and Metal Ions.”

Analytical Seminar, C033, 2:30 p.m.
Alexander Graham, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. “Photothermal Heterodyne Imaging.”
Brett Hildenbrand, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. “Silicon Nanowire Sensor Arrays for Highly Sensitive, Rapid and Label Free Screening.”

Biochemistry Seminar, C001, 2:30 p.m.
Sarah Keane, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. “Structural and Functional Studies of the N-Terminal Domain (NTD) of Mouse Hepatitis Virus (MHV) Nucleocapsid (N) Protein.”

Friday, November 6
Analytical Seminar, C127, 12:30 p.m.
Professor Michael Przybylski, Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany, “Elucidation of “Misfolding” and Aggregation Structures of Neurodegenerative Proteins Using Affinity-Mass Spectrometry and Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry.”

Inorganic Seminar, C033, 4:00 p.m.
Amanda Peterson, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. “Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis to Produce Particles with Controlled Morphologies.”